Gudrun Veronika Kugler, née Lang, also known as Kugler-Lang (born 12 November 1976, Gmunden, Upper Austria), is a Roman Catholic theologian, jurist, and ÖVP-member of Austria's National Council. Kugler is known for her involvement in the anti-abortion movements and her work on combatting of human trafficking, the abolition of the death penalty, on preserving marriage as the union between men and women, and on combating social discrimination and persecution of Christians and other faith groups in Europe and worldwide. Political and business activities Kugler holds master's degrees in law and women's studies, and a doctorate in International Law. In 1999, she earned her Master’s of Theological Studies on Marriage and the Family. From 2001 to 2004, she worked in Brussels as the first director of the World Youth Alliance-Europe, representing 1.5 million young people from 100 countries at the EU and UN. In January 2005, she and her husband founded Kairos-PR, a consulting company based in Vienna which focuses on charitable initiatives. In 2005, Kugler ran as an independent candidate for the Austrian People's Party at the Vienna municipal elections and earned the most votes after the top candidate Johannes Hahn (currently Austria's EU Commissioner). In this context, abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion activists accused each other of fundamentalism. In April 2010, Kugler was elected a member of the Advisory Panel of the Fundamental Rights Platform (a form of co-operation of EU Fundamental Rights Agency with NGOs), for a period of two years. In 2015, she was elected to the Viennese municipal council for the ÖVP, due to 1.652 preference votes received. In October 2017, she stunned political observers when, in the legislative elections, her electoral district Vienna North, a traditional social-democratic stronghold, returned the highest increase in votes, with more than +9%. As the top candidate for this district, Kugler won a direct seat in the National Council. She also received the second-most preference votes of all regional ÖVP-candidates in Vienna. Activities in the Austrian Parliament and the OSCE Since 2017, Gudrun Kugler is a Member of the Austrian Parliament. Re-elected in 2019, she is now the human rights spokesperson, as well as the spokesperson for WWII-exiled minorities, for the parliamentary group of ÖVP. She is Vice-chair of the human rights committee, the equality committee, and the committee for ombudsperson. Furthermore, she is member of the Austrian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, Vice-chair of the OSCE